The Enemy Within

By Semperpapa

In January 2007, Keith Ellison was sworn in as a U.S. Representative in the House.

Mr. Ellison was the first Muslim to be elected to the Congress of the United States. But really that is not the relevant part of the story. Nor is the fact that Ellison took his oath of office placing his hand on the Quran.

The part that instead holds more importance is who Keith Ellison really is.

On the surface, the Minnesota Congressman wants to appear as the champion of diversity and the knight in shiny armor of the United States Constitution.

But the truth may be somewhat different, as the actions of the man prior and following his election to Congress, show a pattern that would bring someone to ponder where his allegiance rests.

For instance, it is disquieting to see the sort of company Ellison has been keeping. In the first place he is obviously a member of CAIR, the Council for American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR is an American front organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. MB, based in Egypt, is an Islamic net of conspirators that have the sole goal to achieve supremacy for Muslims.

In a memo from the MB in Egypt to the Brotherhood in North America, the strategic scope is that the members "must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."

One of Ellison’s “friends” is, for example, James “Yousef” Yee, a Military chaplain who was indicted by the US government for espionage when he was caught with classified material upon his return from Guantanamo prison. The material found in Yee’s possession included maps of the prison, list of name of interrogators and of al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners.

Charges were dropped by the U.S. Army to prevent the divulgement of the classified material as evidence in an eventual trial. But that did not mean that Yee was exonerated from his crime.

Regardless, Yee had received full support from CAIR and, in 2006, Nihad Awad, CAIR executive director, flew Yee to Minneapolis as a featured guest for a fund raiser for Keith Ellison’s Congressional election.

Keith Ellison has benefited greatly by the campaigning efforts of CAIR. These efforts are illegal, because, as a 501(c)(3) organization, CAIR is prevented by law from engaging in any for of political campaign and campaign fund raising. They are supposed to have members of opposing political views at their events, requirement easily satisfied by inviting Congressman Ron Paul to their gathering thanks to his opposition to the War on Terror, and they are definitely not to raise money for specific candidates, which they continuously do for Democrats.

But CAIR has powerful friends in Washington, because thanks to Keith Ellison and the current administration, and the scourge of political correctness so ably manipulated by people like Ellison, any attempt to stop the actions of radical Muslim activists within our legal and political system is immediately labeled Islamophobic.

Keith Ellison is a convert to Islam, conversion he reached after following Luis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam and he is a good friend of Nihad Awad of CAIR. Awad even contributed to Ellison campaign with $2,000 which he donated under an alias name.

And Keith Ellison trip to Mecca for the haji was sponsored by the Muslim American Society, also a front organization for the Muslim Brotherhood, at the tune of over $13,000.

Many would accuse me of exercising a form of guilty-by-association approach. In fact I am.

The issue I see is very simple. Rep. Ellison is a close allied and supporter of an organization, CAIR, that has been the target of numerous FBI investigations for their ties with Islamic terror groups (Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas).

Rep. Keith Ellison has been conducting regular prayer meetings with CAIR and other Islamic groups in offices of Capitol Hill during which he has expressed his goal of wanting to have an increased number of Muslims taking positions in the Congressional environment and in the Obama administration.

Such goal, Ellison contends, would allow the voices of Islam to gain more power and influence policy within our government.

But at the same time, Ellison has also come out in defense of individuals who represent a danger to our security, showing to me that his allegiance resides more with his Islamism than with the interests of the country he is supposed to be serving.

Mr. Ellison is a dangerous man, not because he is a Muslim, but because he is dedicated to see that radical Islamic principles, which are so diametrically opposite to the American principles, become dominant in our country.

I am not Islamophobic, a term that would define me as “afraid of Islam.” I just do not believe that the ideals driving Mr. Ellison are compatible with the principles of liberty our Nation was founded on.

Just my thoughts!